In some really poor places (India) it was common for you to allow family to sell your skeleton for medical or anthropology demonstration in the West... I knew a guy who had an Indian adult male skeleton in a shirt box, he acquired the specimen in the '70s. Biologists, especially of a generation or two back, don't throw interesting things out, they dry, preserve, or clean the bones with scarab beetles, etc. I knew a marine biologist with a freezer full of dried dead fish, freezer burn at its worst.

Witchcraft, or rather a belief in witchcraft, is so common in the Central African Republic that an estimated 40 percent of Central African court cases are witchcraft prosecutions. Human rights workers have actually urged legislators to maintain the law banning its practice. Not, they told The Atlantic's Graeme Wood, because they believe in witchcraft, but because they say that many Central Africans will fear and seek to punish witches with or without the law, so better to do it through a legal system that can at least keep the sentences modest.

OK, well, shiat, yeah, one hopes that the farking RED CROSS doesn't also have the local interest in witchcraft enough that they've hauled the bodies off to practice some kind of ritual in their own basement, but one never knows, right, article-writer???

Gyrfalcon:The Red Cross took the remains away, presumably to be buried.

OK, well, shiat, yeah, one hopes that the farking RED CROSS doesn't also have the local interest in witchcraft enough that they've hauled the bodies off to practice some kind of ritual in their own basement, but one never knows, right, article-writer???

Dude, this is the Central African Republic we're talking about. I woudn't put it past them.